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How Oklahoma Got a Hippopotamus for Christmas
How Oklahoma Got a Hippopotamus for Christmas
Oklahoma has a pretty good Christmas story, and somehow I'd never heard it before. In 1953, a 10-year-old Oklahoma girl named Gayla Peevey recorded a song called "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas." There is no way on earth that you don't know this song, even if you didn't know who Gayla was or that she's from Oklahoma...

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